Writing

These are a few examples of my written work (and in one case my spoken work): a range of relatively informal and jargon-light presentations, interviews, and collaborations. My CV lists my other academic publications and conference presentations, and you can also read about my academic research.

In 2012 I edited a collection on Futures of Feminism and Fandom for Aqueduct Press’s WisCon Chronicles series (Amazon link). It brings together writers, scholars, and fans’ discussions of science fiction, technology, race, gender, and many different perspectives on histories and futures.

Here’s the blurb:

”We are all stories,” Nisi Shawl says in her Guest of Honor speech included in this volume, and ”changing stories changes everything.” What will the stories we tell ourselves about feminism, about science fiction, and about fandom change? How will–and how should–we change those stories? This volume of the WisCon Chronicles documents the conversations, the dramas, and the joys that shaped the world of feminist science fiction fandom before, during, and after WisCon 35. From founders’ recollections of the excitement and conflict of the con’s origins, to many different, difficult conversations about intersections of race, culture, class, and gender, to new forms of fannish engagement that changing media landscapes make more visible, the contributors explore feminism and fandom’s past, present, and future.”

In August 2011, I participated in a set of debates on the idea of ‘acafandom’ at Henry Jenkins’s blog. My conversation with Roberta Pearson, in which we discuss what it means to be a fan, the academy, industry and transformative works, is here: part one and part two.

The Future Stops Here My ‘scholarly vid’ in a framework of questions and quotations about reproduction, futurity, dystopia and resistance: the first of what I hope will be many experiments with scholarly form.

Interview with the Audre Lorde of the Rings For the first issue of Transformative Works and Cultures, I interviewed the three founding members of the collective behind Oh! Industry about scholarship, cultural politics and the love of media.